From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Eisentraut Subject: Context diffs Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:52:09 +0200 Message-ID: <200804202252.10394.peter_e@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 20 22:53:00 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JngWx-0001eD-E4 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:52:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751042AbYDTUwO (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:52:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751099AbYDTUwO (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:52:14 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:55364 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750997AbYDTUwN (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:52:13 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2008 20:52:11 -0000 Received: from xdsl-213-196-202-104.netcologne.de (EHLO colt.local) [213.196.202.104] by mail.gmx.net (mp053) with SMTP; 20 Apr 2008 22:52:11 +0200 X-Authenticated: #495269 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/cLP4MVsncIHqKLIHwbihQwPe9FbnxnYZAgNxjln ouUb9JWkFzA9NA User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Content-Disposition: inline X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Would it be possible to support context diffs (like diff -c) in git-diff? In many cases these are easier to interpret than the unified diff format. I know I can do this via an external diff wrapper, but it'd be nicer if this were built in, considering that it is a very common format.